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Wednesday, July 23, 2008: MySpace Members To Access
OpenID |
MySpace on Tuesday announced it will join the OpenID alliance.
The alliance would allow MySpace users to log on to other Web
sites without registering. Users' personal information will be
used to provide access to third-party sites, so members don't
have to create several user names, passwords, and profiles.
"All this will tie together to make it more useful for MySpace
users to have MySpace accounts even when they're not on MySpace.
We hope you'll be able to take your MySpace friends wherever you
go," Jim Benedetto, the social networking site's senior VP of
technology, said in a statement. "We hope you'll be able to take
your MySpace friends wherever you go," he said.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008: Last.fm gets a makeover,
ventures into iPhone, living room |
Music streaming and social community Last.fm has redesigned for
a more mature experience, adding more integration and ubiquity
across a variety of devices. Ars Technica put on some headphones
and rocked out with some of the new features.
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Now sporting a much more refined and organized layout, Last.fm
is finally filling its shoes as part of CBS' transition to
becoming an "audience company" and further extending its reach
onto the web. The network purchased Last.fm in May 2007 for $280
million. Since then, Last.fm has introduced significant new
features like music streaming from the four major labels—never
mind that little squabble with Warner—and a music video
initiative.
Last.fm became a bit more interesting some time ago with the
introduction of a plug-in for various software like iTunes and
Windows Media Player which "scrobbles" a list of the artists and
songs you play up to your Last.fm account (not the files
themselves). Combined with adding friends and the ability to
purchase songs found on the sites at popular digital outlets
like Amazon and iTunes Store, Last.fm has morphed into a
convenient, free, one-stop social networking shop for exchanging
music tastes, discovering new tracks, and keeping up with one's
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Wednesday, July 10, 2008: Pandora Brings Free
Streaming Music to iPhone 3G |
An app from online radio station Pandora will be among the
hundreds of offerings available Friday when Apple officially
unveils its long-awaited Apps Store alongside the iPhone 3G.
There's a decent chance that Pandora will be overlooked, at
least initially, among the deluge of third-party apps being
released (500 to be exact!), but based on the sneak preview of
the offering, there's an awful lot to like about the Pandora's
iPhone app.
The free Pandora service is now available via iTunes 7.7. It can
be streamed over WiFi, EDGE, and 3G HSPA, and can be run on the
first-generation iPhone, the iPhone 3G, and the iPod Touch, once
the iPhone 2.0 software is made available.
Pandora has produced a step-by-step video about how to download
and use its app.
Once they've downloaded the Pandora app, users can log in with
their existing accounts to access stations created through the
Web version of the program. Using the Touch and iPhone's touch
screens, users can also create new stations directly from the
devices, bookmark favorite songs, and purchase songs over the
air using the iTunes WiFi store.
"We are thrilled to launch Pandora on the iPhone," Pandora
founder Tim Westergren said in a statement. "The ability to
offer a free, personalized streaming service on a mobile device
marks an important new era for Internet radio. Apple's
revolutionary product is the ideal platform for listeners to
experience Pandora on-the-go."
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008: Evidence of moon water
found |
A new analysis of volcanic glass recovered from the moon decades
ago found the rocks contain traces of the constituents of water,
challenging a long-held notion that the moon is perfectly dry.
Using a technique that was not available when Apollo astronauts
collected the minuscule rocks in the early 1970s, scientists
were able to detect telltale signs of water trapped inside the
pebble-like glass. Their discovery suggests that water was
present deep within the moon when the pebbles were formed during
violent lunar eruptions 3.3 billion to 3.6 billion years ago.
The analysis, published today in the journal Nature, may cause
scientists to rethink theories on how the moon was formed.
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Update |
Web Updates |
7.22.08
Some sections up. Check them out your self! |
7.12.08
Been to lazy to update but everything will be done soon enough! |
7.9.08
New section up and running. |
7.8.08
Finished with the basic layout and construction of the webpage. |
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